Demonstrating once again how much loose money is sloshing around universities, comes this: In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Arizona State University looked at 63 years of hurricane fatality data...

CLICK to enlarge photos. Along the canyon via Potrero Road. This canyon had thick brush. I bet these will be revived with the next rain. At Cal State Channel Islands (CSUCI), the fire came right up to the edge. Notice the tree at right is scorched its left half, but...

Santa Ana winds have started a fire in Camarillo Ca., which is just over the hill from Thousand Oaks. Hill? It’s a 900 foot elevation change. I took this photo at 11:50, shortly after fetching my granddaughter from preschool, which closed early as a precaution....

Meanwhile, the fear of radiation caused Germany and others to radically curtail their nuclear power generation. Thus we have people with “green” sensibilities, moving away from the one reliable power source that does not emit carbon. And they fancy...

A blog comment from Small Dead Animals FEMA, while it is a clusterfrig of titanic proportions, could not cause this much misery on its own. Although they FAILED to have emergency generators at key fuel distribution points (read gas stations) and although they FAILED...